"It was not his plan," the comedian dryly understated. Quinn hooted, clearly amused, at his director's emphatic retort. He was great to direct because he has so many skills you can do a lot of things…"įor the record, Seinfeld is making his Broadway debut - and, " No!, he never thought he'd make it as a director. "It's harder to direct because it's hard to sit there. "Well, we've had good audiences for a while, but this was a big occasion, and that made me nervous. Opening night was a cheering section for Colin converts, but it rattled Herr Director. He said, 'Yeah.' And I go, 'I guess I'm directing it.'" About a week after our talk, he said, 'I think I came up with an idea for a show that I've been working on.' 'Really?' I said. The only thing I really did is I told him to do a show like this instead of a regular stand-up. Stand-up isn't really quite right for him. "You know, he needs to elevate because this guy something going on. "This was much more than just trying to do a comedy set where you would incorporate these things," Seinfeld pointed out. "In real life, doesn't he belong doing something like that?" he rhetorically wondered aloud to a gang of reporters who had huddled around him at the after-party held two blocks from the theatre in the lush, black-walled lobby of the Royalton Hotel. If we can't share a hospital room, what chance has the Gaza Strip?Īnd who is the adroit, inventive, surefooted director who helped Quinn negotiate these slippery slopes of latter-day logic being applied to antiquity? Merely the proven master of something-out-of-nothing - Jerry Seinfield, enjoying what seems to a lifetime retirement from television but still generous enough to assist an old friend and fellow stand-up in standing up to the standards of Broadway. With her dying breath, she ordered the curtain divider drawn so her roommate and family couldn't see her television. Quinn relates the story of visiting a quarrelsome aunt in the hospital. Is Antigone's Olympic bawling over her unburied bro so different from Snooki's crying jag over a lost cell phone, really? Isn't the brawn-vs.-brain contest that kept ancient Greeks and Romans at each other's throats still here when a girl must pick between a Harley biker and a Google nerd? That's because Quinn brings the truths of mankind's progress home in a crazy crisscross of then and now. What's frightening is, it's not only funny - it makes sense. His blue-collar world-view squeezes the globe into a rowdy, rinky-dink bar at 3:30 in the morning, roiling with conflicts that have been reduced to the lowest common (but human) denominator. 9 at the Helen Hayes Theatre for a limited two-month "legit-gig." Colin Quinn guests Ben Stiller, Kathy Griffin and Tom KittĪ history of the world in 75 minutes and working-class "laymanese" is the gist, and jest, of Colin Quinn's Long Story Short, which opened Nov.
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